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A California Timeline

1961   - Bell Air Fires (Los Angeles)  1962   - Dodger Stadium opens  - Pat Brown defeats Nixon in governor's race   - Construction of the I-405 freeway  1963   - "Onion Field" Kidnappings & Killings (Hollywood - Bakersfield) -  1964    - Free Speech movement @ UC Berkeley  1965   - Watts Riots (Los Angeles  1966    - Sunset Strip Curfew riots  1967 - Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey)  - Summer of Love (San Francisco)  1968 - Black Panther Party Founded (Oakland)  - Robert F. Kennedy shot @ the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles  1969 - Tate-Labianca Murders -  Altamont - 1970   - Clampitt and Laguna wildfires  - Manson Trial begins  1970-71   - Zodiac Killer messages San Francisco Chronicle  - Worst 2-year drought in California history  1971    - San Fernando earthquake  1974    - Patty Hearst kidnapped  1975   -...